Send Coke off campus
Grinnell College has a history as an internationally-informed and socially-aware institution. The Latin American Solidarity Group and Grinnell Students Against Sweatshops believe that this ideology should extend beyond the academic sphere, and affect the actions that we take as individuals and as a student body.
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Why Kerry will win
If the presidential election were held today, President George W. Bush would win a decisive victory, garnering 300 electoral votes to John Kerry’s 238. Since the Republican National Convention, conservative pundits have been writing incessantly on the likelihood of a Bush win. Even some moderates and liberals shudder in fear as Election Day approaches.
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Why weddings can wait
New Student Orientation has two purposes: 1) helping the freshman to make friends, settle into college life and generally feel the love, and 2) scaring the freshman to death. For every fun and enjoyable ice cream social that I attended over that fateful long weekend three years ago, I also attended at least one session about the dangers of college life, which included alcohol poisoning, sexual assault, academic probation, and marriage.
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Pomp, circumstance and pompous circumstance
One month here and I’ve decided the one thing Britain has over the U.S. other than really cool accents and Colin Firth is the monarchy. Granted, it is a constitutional monarchy that doesn’t really wield what little power it has, but who could possibly deny how cool it would be to have a queen, crown jewels, and hunky Prince Charmings for real? Not only that, but think of the royal palaces, ceremonies, and great songs like “God Save the Queen”…
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Pirate adventure in the modern world
The Strait of Malacca is easily one of the world’s most important waterways. Tens of thousands of ships yearly pass through the strait, carrying a quarter of the world’s oceangoing commercial cargo. The U.S. earlier this year expressed concern that the Strait may prove a target for terrorists seeking to disrupt the world economy. However, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, the countries bordering the Strait, have a more immediate concern: piracy. Not software piracy, but piracy on the high seas, with looting, pillaging, plundering, and all sorts of other fearsome activities. The Strait and neighboring waters are the world’s center of contemporary piracy, with well over a hundred (documented) attacks each year menacing travelers and traders and the commerce of littoral nations.
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Loving broken bodies
It’s Love Your Body week. And here at the S&B, we have bodies (not to mention brains). And, well, some of us have diseases in those bodies. Chronic diseases. Bad stuff that shouldn’t be there but that just won’t go away (like Coca-Cola). We’re a mini-epidemic housed in a small oddly hexagonal constructional protrusion called the Student Publications Building. But technically our maladies are not contagious. What’s contagious is the support we’ve each received from our fellow students. Every week, We Love Our Student Body.
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Random Rants
Students speak out about what’s on their minds in 142 words, and you’re invited! If you have a random rant, email it to us. After all, complaining in a public forum is always more fun than doing it alone.
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